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A new dispensary was set up in 1845 in Chapel Road, which when enlarged in 1860 became known as the Worthing Infirmary and Dispensary. [1] The Worthing Infirmary and Dispensary moved to the current site in Lyndhurst Road in 1882 and was given the name Worthing Hospital in 1902. [1] The new East Wing was opened by Princess Anne in 1998. [2]
In July 2022 it was reported that patients experiencing a mental health crisis had been kept in a “short stay area” of the Emergency Department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital for up to three weeks waiting for a mental health placement.
After the hospital attained NHS Trust status in 1994, a new building, containing wards, physiotherapy and operating theatres was completed in 1996. [1] In May 2008, the West Sussex Primary Care Trust Board recommended that Worthing Hospital be the 'major general hospital' for West Sussex and that St Richard's Hospital be downgraded. [2]
The Trust also provided services in Brighton General Hospital, Lewes Victoria Hospital, Bexhill Renal Satellite Unit, Eastbourne District General Hospital and Worthing Hospital. In July 2020 it announced plans to merge with Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [2]
Worthing Hospital Southlands Hospital St Richard's Hospital. Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which ran Worthing Hospital, Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea and St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, England and served a population of around 450,000 people across a catchment area covering most of West Sussex.
Staff at the hospital assisted in a major incident when a double-decker bus was blown off the Old Shoreham Bridge into the River Adur on 1 January 1949. [7] The main ward block was opened in 1979. [6] After maternity services were transferred to Worthing Hospital, the maternity ward closed on 7 June 1997. [8]
[7] [15] The latter extension was undertaken by the Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust, [15] but since 1 April 2009 Worthing Hospital has been administered by the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust. [16] Meadowfield Hospital, [17] formerly Swandean Hospital, is a mental health unit based in an 1865 house in High Salvington.
The trust was established as Sussex Partnership NHS Trust in April 2006, and became a NHS Foundation Trust with teaching status in August 2008. [4]In 2013 the trust set up a joint venture with the company Care UK to purchase a 32-bed rehabilitation unit in Gosport, and to create a 24-bed self-contained accommodation unit later in the year.